Wed July 01 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Editorial: Is a “Cytokine Storm” Relevant to COVID-19? – JAMA Internal Medicine

2 – Editorial: Will COVID-19 be evidence-based medicine’s nemesis? – PLOS Medicine

“In the current fast-moving pandemic, where the cost of inaction is counted in the grim mortality figures announced daily, implementing new policy interventions in the absence of randomized trial evidence has become both a scientific and moral imperative.”

3 – Whole-town study reveals more than 40% of COVID-19 infections had no symptoms – Imperial College London

Original Study: Suppression of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in the Italian municipality of Vo’ – Nature

4 – The line is forming for a COVID-19 vaccine. Who should be at the front? – Science

5 – Why COVID-19 Silent Hypoxemia is Baffling to Physicians – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Commentary: Silent Hypoxemia from COVID-19 Explained – Journal Feed

6 – Outcomes from intensive care in patients with COVID‐19: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of observational studies – Anaesthesia

7 – COVID-19 Planning Considerations: Guidance for School Re-entry – American Academy of Pediatrics

Commentaries: U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall – NPR AND Academic, mental and physical benefits of in-person school outweigh virus risks, pediatrics group says – CNN AND Why a Pediatric Group Is Pushing to Reopen Schools This Fall – The New York Times

8 – Twin epidemics of covid-19 and non-communicable disease – The BMJ

9 – Swine flu strain with human pandemic potential increasingly found in pigs in China – Science

Original Study: Prevalent Eurasian avian-like H1N1 swine influenza virus with 2009 pandemic viral genes facilitating human infection – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

See also: ‘Pandemic potential’: New flu virus is found in Chinese pigs – World Economic Forum AND New Swine Flu Virus In China Has ‘Pandemic Potential,’ Here Are 7 Reasons Why – Forbes AND A new swine-flu strain with ‘pandemic potential’ was just found circulating in Chinese pigs – Business Insider

10 –COVID-19 Updates / 01 July 2020 Edition

01 July 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)